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11/12/2010 9:37AM

News Hub: A Watchdog for Online Privacy

The Obama administration is preparing a stepped-up approach to policing Internet privacy that calls for new laws and the creation of a new position to oversee the effort, according to people familiar with the situation. Julia Angwin has details.

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